Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-09
HORSE GOSSIP.

year, anu utOTR6 wilkes with nine.
Rocket 2;29]4, has been sold by F. o.
Stanley OF Lewiston, Me-, to VIM. Neeley
Ut New Haven. Reported price, 5000.
Ten thousand dollars is the price ask ed
for Arrow, the California four year Id
PAGER that made Il record of 2:l4 this sea
son.
A regular meeting of the board of review
Of the National Trotting association will
he hel ut the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York, Tuesday evening, Dec. Il
Joe Hooker, once valued at $4,000, but
now % years old, was sold for $50 at Har
risburg the other day by his owner, James
Rudy, ir to John Young.
II. NJ. Strong, that made "a record of o.
25>s at East Saginaw, Mich, five years ago
has been ringing around Philadelphia a..d
the neighboring track this summer as Lit
tie Joe.
Edward b. Colman of Boston has bought
of B. f. Rogers the weanling colt Elcan-
tara, by Alcavtavna. dam Belle LamUert,
second dam, Belle Bryan, by Mambrino
patchen
The kentucky association has decided
to admit to its grounds during the races
no women without escorts. unless belong
ing to the families of members OF the as
ISOLATION.
Lord Lorne. one of the good performers
on the running turf last year, and which
broke his leg at the Brooklyn track re-
Gently and was destroyed.
John Madden has placed in Crit Davis's
hands Il two-year-uld PAGER called Ara
miuta. Recently Araninta was taken
from u pasture held, and withou. any pre-
oaration went Il half in l:l@
The spring Valley stock farm, Omaha,
Neb., oilers 10 paceits yearllng colt, Ed.
ROSewater against any yparluG PAGER or
trotter i'll the United States. halt mile
heats, two in three, for 500 Il side.
Bendigo, the great English race horse
for which an offer of 800 0GO was refused
two years ago by his owner, Il wealthy
brewer, now has nearly that amount to
his credit III stakes won, and Is still sound
and useful.
The best sale of trotters and PAGERS ever
held in Tennessee took place at Ewell
Farm, Spring Hill, recently, when = head
were sold, bringing Sl4,320. Nine PAGERS
averaged 1917 each, and Il yearling trot-
ers S21S each.
James Golden OF Boston, will winter
Butterfly, 2I034 4, De Barry. 49,, II. b
Wnship, 2:2ol :, r. r. H., $685., two three,
year olds by Electioneer, iiye-S ear old
mare by Kentucky Prince, a mare by Dr.
Herr, and several others.
Apollo, the gelding which won the Ken
tucky Derby OF 1882, died at Charleston. s.
c., last week of lockiaw He belonged to
Green Morris, was an uncertain perform
er, and when, in 1884 he broke down, was
| given TO a Charleston doctor.
There are some wonderfully fast colts
| in the Dwyer lot, and at least two record
breakers 1t is said, in the Belmont lot
Mr.. Pierre LorlllArd, jr., is said 70 own
six or seven of undoubted good quality
| among the number being II sister 70 Ia
trina and Il brother to La Juive.
| An English race horse died recently at
| Dover under myst riouS circumstances.
| 1t was afterwards examined by veteri-
nary surgeon, when its stomach was found
TO contain three stones. one weighing
seven pounds and sloped like Dutch
cheese. 1t was nearly seven inches in
| diameter.
The chestnut stallion General Withers,
| by Almunt, dam Bloom, by Ashland, son
OF Msmbrino Chief. owned by &. j. Shaw
of Maine has been added to Charles
| Yapp's string of trotters in Allston. His
stable ompanions are George Lee, . % 1,
| Fred 5, 2:3l, and A1stmont. Cen With
ers will be handled for speed next season.
| In the opinion of good judges If the
| great three year-old Susie :. is properly
nursed until five or six years old both JAY
| Eye-See and Maud ;. must look to their
| laurels. In her race AT st Louis, where
she acquired a record of 2:30, she trotted
| III he bird heat to half III LOO, and the
back quarter in 34;2 seconds, a 2:lO gait
George II. Hicks fuds a ready MAJ ket
| III Boston for the get of ben Franklin
record 2:2g. He has lately 30 d the 10
! hand four. year-oid. chestnut mare by that
noted son of Daniel Lambert, at u good
price, to i. &. Rogers, now of Peabody
The mare pulled Mr.. Hicks II mile over
the Beacon Park track in 2;35 and showed
n half in l:lj. Her dam was by Old Col
| umbUs
Atlantic is most essentially race horse
aud a great credit 70 his dead sire, Almont
| who, in the judgment OF the writer, wa,
| second to no sire that eve" lived in trans
hitting speed that rates OH mile aftel
mile. making his progeny uniformly safe
| to follow in the pool box. For the road
the track and general purposes Almon'
filed place not easily supplied.
briuO, in spirit.
Walter Hadley OF Somerville, the own
er of the slick little PAGER Daisy Lambert
has bought the PAGER Henry Fit patrick
an eighty ear-old, Is hands two, Chestnut
gelding, by Sayers's Henry Clay. He has
made his mile IN 2:30 IL. Daisy Lambert
produced Il foal by Charley Wilkes thi.
season, which shows so much promise thai
she Is likely to be used for breeding pur
poses in the future.
Taking OF the Emperor OF Norfolk
Lucky Baldwin recently said Money
can't buy the Emperor of Norfolk $50,
600 would not be looked at. He has made
$40, 600 in stakes so far this season. He
will add from $1,000 to SO 900 more
Next year he will II axe anywhere from
900 to 100000 My stable has made
this season from S9S,O00 to $4,000. Las
season the figures were 100000. So W.
will beat it this year"
Ansel the last star to appear on the 22l
horizon, is also California bred horse
being one of Palo Altos productions. He i
by Electioneer, dam Annette by LeXlng
ton, and trotted in 2;20 at san Francisco
in October Ansel, who lis in all probabill
ty the lass . 80 debutante that will gradu
ate with {: % honors this season, is TIN
only horse out of thoroughbred dam tina
ever entered the , 20 list.-N. \. Sports
| man.
The well known trottiIs mare GaZelle
died at the home of her owners, Messrs
; Stimson & Co., Saugatuck, Mich, recent
ly, from Inflammation OF the DO sels Sh
was foaled IN 1865, got by Rysdyk's Ham
bletonian dam, Hattie Wood, by, Sayer'
: Harry CIuy. 50, .onb dam Ora moi hen